Facebook For Dummies, 7th Edition

Chapter 16

Ten Ways to Make the Most of Your Facebook Content

IN THIS CHAPTER

Reminiscing with On This Day

Celebrating friends with Say Thanks and Friend-a-versaries

Enhancing your photos and posts

I spend a lot of time in this book emphasizing how easy things are to do or reminding you of the simplest way to do things. Want to update your status? Click, type, post. Want to post a picture from your phone? Tap, select, post. Using Facebook is meant to be easy and seamless when you want. This chapter, however, is about some of the ways you can go beyond the basics. Some of these things are ways to make your content a little more special, a little less rushed. Others are ways to take stock of your history on Facebook, organize it, and get nostalgic for it. These are the kinds of things that when I’ve seen them on Facebook, I think to myself: How do I do that? Well, here’s how.

Remember the Past

Quick, what were you doing a year ago? Not, like, in general. But exactly 365 days ago. Were you having a good day or a bad one? Did you go to the grocery or to a party or just to work like normal? If you’ve been using Facebook for over a year, and like most people, use it every day, you can ...